Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-26

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at 8 o'clock the next morning. VIM.
Wilson and man named stevens
went with me. saw the remains.
They were in the northeast corner oi
the barn, near the door-a double
door opening on the north side OF the
barn. There was another door. The
barn was divided into two parts. The
place where the body was found was
the carriage house; the other was
store room. "a diagram of the barn,
drawn by witness, was introduced i'll
evidence. The body laid face down
ward: the left arm looked extended
upward and the right arm was doub..
led up under the body. The back OF
the head was all burned, as well as
portions of the body and the legs. L
saw in the side of the head over the
left ear what supposed to be bullet
hole, maybe three-eighths OF an inch
in diameter. have seen this young
lady (pointing to Miss Hattie Wool
steen) at Mrs. Barbey's in the latter
part of June. l think she stayed
there about two weeks. There was a
schoolboy there, too. Once alter
wards saw two young ladies call at
the place after the death of Mrs. Bar
bey and enter the premises. l think
one was Miss Hattie Woolsteen. The
other was about the same size. There
are two gates by which carriage can
enter the Barley place from Lemon
street. l don't know how long the
Young ladies remained there. l
| thought l saw Hattie there the day
before the barn burned in company
with gentleman in two-horse car
riage. He wore light, broad
brimmed hat | saw portion of a
moustache on the upper lip of the re-
mains. l saw one of the sleeve-but-
tons picked up near the body. On
+ the breast there was a mark that ap-
peared like bruise. 1t looked as if
the skin was knocked off. The main
road is about thirty rods from the
barn. There is private carriage road
near the barn. When Mrs. Barbey's
furniture had been taken away, the
gate was left open and people hauling
hay to the depot availed themselves
of the opportunity, crossing the place
by coming in at one gate and leaving
by the other.
HANSON STEVENS TESTIMONY.
Hanson Stevens: l live one mile
west of Compton, on Lemon street.
NV place is on the north side of the
road, about 100 yards from Mrs. Bar
bev's house. l was at home on the
night of the fire. l did not go. |
went next morning with Mr.. Coltrin
and my two sons, John and Charles.
We saw the remains of a person part
lv burned up in the northeast corner
OF the barn. The body lay on its
right side, on the face, with the left
arm extended upwards. The body
was pretty well burned up. On the
upper lip there was part OF the NOUS
tache not burned. 1t was light col
ored. | saw what took to be a bullet
hole in the left side of the head. over
the ear. l put my front finger in the
hole. 1t was about the size of a
revolver or small rifle. The hole
went into the skull. Part OF the cloth
ing and some papers in the vest pocket
were not quite burned up. l took
them out of the outside vest pocket
myself. (The burned papers were
placed in evidence.) Miss Woolsteen
was at my house once in July with
Mrs. Barley. l have never. seen her
to know her again since.
The witness in cross examination
said he had seen many bullet wounds
! before. The hole was round hole.
He was one of the jurors. The brain
was not taken out at the inquest.
DIR. wHALEY's TESTIMONY.
DIR. F. S. Whaley-I reside at Comp
ton. Have resided there seventeen
wears. | made an examination at
| Compton of some human remains,
very much charred. The extremities
were all burned away; the skull was
gone and the fore-part of the brain
was charred. In looking for a bullet
in the brain l found a portion of it
that was not burned. | saw no injury,
but in another portion there was ex-
travasated blood-a clot which induced
me to believe that there had been an
injury there during lifetime. There
were echymoses ON the skin of the
breast, indicating that he had received
some injuries there during his life
time. l inferred that the individual
had been engaged in severe struggle
for life so l looked for the right arm and
found echymoses there also, on the
forearm. There was a very straight
incision in the skin on the left breast
down to the ribs. | saw the teeth
from their appearance l judged that
the deceased was 80 or 35 years OF
age. There was very little hair OH
the lip, but l could not tell the color.
l looked for a bullet, but found no di-
rect evidence that bullet had ever
, been there. The whole top of the
skull was gone. DIR. Downs was pres
ent at the examination.
On cross-examination by Col. Wells,
the witness said that he had been a
physician for 43 years. Didn't think
that the burning of the body would
cause blood to stain the brain. The
Doctor explained the reasons for which
,, he thought that the wounds on the
body had been caused before death
and not afterwards, though they might
have been made very soon after death.
The bruises in his opinion could not
very well have been the caused by
, hand. He could not account for the
incision on the breast. 1t was three to
four inches long. 1t was cut through
the skin to the ribs. 1t was clean
cut. He came to the conclusion, from
/ his examination, that there had been
, struggle for life. When he first saw
J the body lying on its face one should
!, er was much higher than the other,
, and he inferred that the body had
been pulled by one arm into the barn,
and had not, prior to the burning of
the barn, been lifeless very long. The
bruises and wounds had the appear
ance of having been made just before
the burning, the blood in them being
red and not black. Witness could not
give any reason for the cause OF the
deceased's death; he had no elements
for giving one.
! DIR. DOWNS EVIDENCE.
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